Thornhill provincial Progressive Conservative byelection candidate Gila Martow called the move to raise the minimum wage this week “a vote-buying, feel-good kind of message,” in an interview. “If you think about it, what does it mean? I don’t think that, especially in the Thornhill riding, there’s too many families… that are working ­— the parents ­— at real minimum-wage jobs,”… I would like you to show me a few families living in Thornhill that are paying their mortgage and both parents are working real minimum-wage jobs, not a penny more than minimum wage.

Hudak hasn’t had a good couple of weeks with candidates. He fires his one candiate in Essex for apparently disagreeing on the right-to-work policy, 2 Hamilton candidates mysteriously resigned yesterday, and now this candidate has decided to try to make people with minimum wage jobs disappear and belittle the minimum wage rate increase.